CALL FOR PAPERSWhat is Love? A crowd of glassy-eyed Greek philosophers famously tacklethis elusive topic in Plato's Symposium, but in the ensuing two-thousandyears, perspectives have changed. The Comparative Humanities Review is nowaccepting papers for Symposium: An Undergraduate Conference that examinePlato's Symposium and its afterlives in multiple disciplines. Submissionsshould be comparative in nature and written while the student is/was anundergraduate. Panels will be chaired by Bucknell faculty and organizedinto the following sessions:

1. Plato's SymposiumPapers should address the text of Plato's Symposium in some way, such asoffering a new reading of a particular issue (ex. sexuality, gender roles),applying a theoretical paradigm, or analyzing the afterlife of theSymposium in various historical contexts.

2. Love in Its Comparative ContextsThe Symposium is one of the foundational texts on Love in the Westernworld. Papers may address how Love appears in a particular historicalperiod (ex. Medieval Europe), genre (ex. literature, film, music), culturalcontext (Victorian England), or discipline (ex. Biology, Psychology, Religion).

3. The Symposium as a Model for Ideological EngagementThe Symposium is also a narrative in which humanity has sought outknowledge communally. Papers may address any type of force that causesindividuals to congregate (ex. a historical personality, a political cause,spiritual guidance).

4. Creative or Artistic SubmissionA work of visual or performing art (ex. poetry, painting, theater)addressing one of topics above.

Accepted papers will also be collected in Symposium: CHR 2.1, the secondissue published by the Comparative Humanities Review, a scholarly journalcreated and produced by Bucknell University students that supports anddistributes comparative, undergraduate scholarship in the humanities andexamines the space between those who receive knowledge (the Student) andthose who produce it (the Scholar).